Principles
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- Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry.
- Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
- Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more it spreads in human nature, the more ought the law to weed it out; for the first injury only offends the law, but revenge entirely sets aside its authority.
- Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.
- Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
- Set it down as a fact to which there are no exceptions, that we must labor for all that we have, and that nothing is worth possessing, or offering to others, which costs us nothing.
- Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
- So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
- Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.
- Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.
- The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
- The beginning of all good law, and nearly the end of it, is that every man shall do good work for his bread, and that every man shall have good bread for his work.
- The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
- The main thing is to keep the main thing a main thing.
- The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing.
- The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. The middle way is, justice to ourselves and others.
- The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
- The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
- There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
- There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, that word is reciprocity. What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others.
- This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.
- To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone.
- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.
- What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
- Whatever you plant in your mind you will eventually manifest in the outside world.
- When you're creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate.
- You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?